When Biden was a candidate last year, he criticized the DOJ's highly unusual move to intervene and replace Trump's private lawyers with attorneys from the department. But Biden's DOJ is continuing with the previous administration's argument...
"It is horrific that Donald Trump raped E. Jean Carroll in a New York City department store many years ago. But it's truly shocking that the current DOJ would allow Donald Trump to get away with lying about it, thereby depriving our client of her day in court."Carroll said in an emailed statement, "As women across the country are standing up and holding men accountable for assault — the DOJ is trying to stop me from having that same right.
"While we are not going to comment on this ongoing litigation, the American people know well that President Biden and his team have utterly different standards from their predecessors for what qualify as acceptable statements," added Bates, stressing that it was a DOJ matter as it's active litigation.
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